Globe Trotting
This country spans 11 time zones, more than any other on Earth.
What is Russia?
His 1982 album Thriller became the best-selling album of all time and earned him the title "King of Pop."
Who is Michael Jackson?
Over millions of years, this river carved the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
He commanded the Continental Army and became the first U.S. President.
Who is George Washington?
The Brandenburg Gate, once stranded beside a dividing wall, is the symbol of this European capital.
What is Berlin?
The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from this North African country.
What is Morocco?
This Swedish quartet shot to fame after winning Eurovision in 1974
Who is ABBA?
Old Faithful, the famously punctual geyser, erupts in this U.S. national park — the world's first.
What is Yellowstone?
The Declaration of Independence was signed in this city, in the building now called Independence Hall.
What is Philadelphia?
Flat-topped Table Mountain looms over this South African port known as the "Mother City."
What is Cape Town?
These are the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world — landlocked nations surrounded entirely by other landlocked nations. (One in Europe, one in Central Asia — can be either!)
What are Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan?
Recorded in 1976 while both couples in the band were splitting up, this group's album went on to sell over 40 million copies.
Who is Fleetwood Mac?
Straddling the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, this massive waterfall was named by explorer David Livingstone after a British queen.
What is Victoria Falls?
The American victory at this 1777 battle in upstate New York convinced France to formally ally with the revolutionaries.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
In 1960, Brazil moved its capital from Rio de Janeiro to this planned city, laid out in the shape of an airplane.
What is Brasília?
The Danube River empties into this sea, whose name doesn't match its actual color.
What is the Black Sea?
Organized by Bob Geldof, this massive 1985 benefit concert for Ethiopian famine relief was staged simultaneously in London and Philadelphia.
What is Live Aid?
This massive sandstone monolith sacred to the Anangu people rises abruptly from the flat Australian outback and appears to change color at sunset.
What is Uluru (Ayers Rock)?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and drew a line at latitude 36°30′.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
At roughly 12,000 feet above sea level, this Bolivian seat of government is the world's highest capital city.
What is La Paz?
This African country changed its name in 2018, adding "Kingdom of Eswatini" to shed its colonial-era name.
What was Swaziland (now Eswatini)?
Fittingly, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by this one-hit-wonder band was the first music video ever played on MTV in 1981.
Who are The Buggles?
This Siberian lake is both the world's deepest and its largest by volume, holding roughly one-fifth of Earth's unfrozen fresh water.
What is Lake Baikal?
This president holds the record for shortest time in office, dying just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This megacity — capital of the world's fourth most populous country — has grown so large it now rivals Tokyo as the biggest urban area on the planet.
What is Jakarta?